The Upper Canadien

Habs. Bruins. Game seven. As it was meant to be. As it always was going to be. Two storied franchises going head to head for the 34th time. One team, big and brutish, coming off a phenomenal year, leading the league in points, 54 wins, a year removed from the Stanley Cup finals. The other a younger team, building on draft picks and development, focused on speed and skill.

Monday night's game was a thing of beauty. A hockey game featuring grit, determination, speed, skill and artistry. No thuggery. No goonery. It was fantastic hockey. Perhaps the best game I have watched in years. Absolute entertainment, from both sides.

But now we have something potentially better. Montreal. Boston. Game seven. Is there anything better for a hockey fan?

This game, based on the series, should be close. It will be a battle of goaltenders at the top of their class, defencemen at the top of their trade, and forwards hell bent on outdoing one another. Will Milan Lucic break out? Will Max Pacioretty continue to awake from his hibernation? Will Tomas Vanek show everyone why he's worth $8 million a year? Will PK Subban take over the game as only he can? Is Carey Price about to take his performances this year in elimination games...and take things to another level of goaltending superiority?

7 pm puck drop tomorrow. Habs coming off a shutout. Bruins waxing about penalty calls and expectations of a win. Montreal talking about what a great year it has been, how anything can happen, and how much they want victory.

I'm pretty excited. More than I have been in a long time for a Canadiens game. I only hope you're able to watch, because this, ladies and gentlemen, should be a good show.

Oh, and something tells be the Canadiens aren't ready to go home just yet.

About The Upper Canadien

The Upper Canadien is your one stop shop for all things Montreal Canadiens. Since the summer of 2010, I've been providing Habs related news, notes, and most importantly, opinions. As a blogger, I don't believe it's my job to report the news, it's my privilege to comment on it. You may disagree with what I suggest. In fact, you most likely will. But that's the great part about blogging: it spurs opinion, comment and engages all involved. I've really enjoyed all the debate and commentary from readers thus far and I encourage everyone to respond with ideas on lineups, trades, logos, sweaters, mascots, whatever. The Upper Canadien is a conversation for all hockey fanatics.

I've come to Kukla's Korner with four years of campus radio and three years of sportswriting from my time at Mount Allison University on Canada's East coast. Not only do I not have any professional journalistic training, after five years in the corporate world, I've spent much of the past two years completing an MBA. Business by day, hockey by night, I'm a Canadiens fan through and through. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.